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A History of the County of Essex
… for its upkeep passed in 1785 to the Middlesex and Essex turnpike trust, which was reimbursed by quarter sessions, 94 … 96 It also passed into the care of the Middlesex and Essex turnpike trust, 97 and was adopted as a county bridge in … did traffic increase. In 1721 the Middlesex and Essex turnpike trust was created to develop the road from …
A History of the County of Essex
… (often called the alms-house) comprising 3 cottages by the turnpike at Woodford Bridge. 12 Because it was too small to … paid 5 s. as composition. In 1721 the Middlesex and Essex turnpike trust became responsible for the upper road and in …
A History of the County of Sussex
… Bramber to Lindfield. 19 The Henfield-Brighton road was a turnpike between 1777 and 1876, together with the branch road … which runs along part of the northern boundary, was a turnpike between 1777 and 1868. 21 The Holmbush inn on the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… 77-81 Oxford Street. The site was altered c. 1780 when the turnpike commissioners levelled and widened Hollow Way. 45 In … site was sold in 1802 to Thomas Waite and in 1835 to the turnpike trustees, who demolished both houses to widen the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… demolished c. 1780 when the road was levelled by the turnpike commissioners. 63 That section of Oxford Street was …
A History of the County of Oxford
… stone arches. 40 In 1774 the corporation agreed with the turnpike trustees to rebuild part of the causeway but when … the town by that route. 44 After the creation of local turnpike roads in the 18th century, however, the preferred … north-east to Sturdy's Castle, which were in the care of turnpike trustees by 1804. 45 Woodstock had a postal service …
A History of the County of Oxford
… the 18th century the trustees of the Woodstock-Rollright turnpike, sometimes with the corporation's help, repaired the … continued to maintain the wooden bridge over the turnpike until it was removed, probably when Hollow Way was … Above, Development. e.g. Boro. Mun. 88, pp. 349, 426. Turnpike Act, 44 Geo. III, c. 79; cf. O.R.O., Rob. II/ii/21: …
A History of the County of Gloucester
… of the Gloucester-Chepstow road through the parish was a turnpike road from 1757-8 to 1871, 63 but the only major … Mon. & Glouc. Roads Act, 31 Geo. II, c. 44; Annual Turnpike Acts Continuance Act, 34 & 35 Vic. c. 115. Badminton …
A History of the County of Somerset
… relief. In 1771 the capital was invested in the Bridgwater turnpike trust but the income fell from £2 in the 1780s to 5 …
A Topographical Dictionary of England
… valleys, red-sandstone rocks, and picturesque hills. The turnpike-road between Bridgnorth and Wolverhampton passes …